Fallout 3 Preview

German website Gamestar.de brings us a new in-depth, three-page preview of Fallout 3. NMA translates:

This shows clearly that – despite updates to its core – Bethesdas Gamebryo engine is obsolete technology. At least now the textures in the distance no longer look as foggy as they did in Oblivion. And it is to be expected that the hardware-requirements won’t be out of this world – good news for RPGamers with older systems.
That the PC version of Fallout 3 will be tuned to the abilities of modern graphics cards – is not to be expected. The version we saw at the Games Convention was according to Bethesda employees almost finished. We don’t expect therefore that the graphics of the PC version will undergo any changes until the release date of October 31, 2008.
Back on our hill, which impressively proved with it’s surrounding view that one of the central of the Fallout series is still very much alive – the freedom to act as you please. Though while the overview map clearly depicts our first target we very much have the freedom to go where we want. So of course we turn our back on the suggested target and go the other way into the hostile world.